Cole Haan

Cole Haan is an established
American-based shoes, handbags and accessories brand approaching its
first centenary – an undeniable indication of its enduring
popularity. A daughter company of the clothing&footwear giant
Nike, Cole Haan incorporates some of the parent's sports insole
technologies even in the most classy heels and strap sandals, and
defies the accepted notion that beauty and accentuated elegance
cannot go in hand with comfort.

It is thus not surprising that Maria
Sharapova, a successful athlete who embodies both elegance and
elasticity has become and ambassador for the company.

Range of products

Cole Haan make practically all familiar
types of shoes for women and men: heels and pumps, boots and booties,
sandals and flats, ballets and slippers, loafers and moccasins;
handbags comprise another essential category for the brand – a
selection of crossbody and shoulder bags, hobos and totes, and
satchels and clutches.

Design

During the last several seasons Cole
Haan have made shoes that exhibit consistent stylistic
characteristics. While each collection carries it's own unique mark,
and reveals slight deviations from these major design and aesthetic
qualities, the latter can still be traced in one component of the
shoe or the other:

Solid colors – with preference
for gloss, but matted models also exist; quiet yet expressive
earthy colors dominate the palette (all shades of browns, various
burgundy, blacks, beige, cream, tones, and grays), though designers
will occasionally play with bright yellow, reds, and other shades)

Classic, elegant architecture with
subtle complimenting features and enhancements that never break too
much towards the experimental, yet willingly flirt with it from time
to time. Material combinations particularly stand out, some of the
boots demonstrating an effective mix of leather and suede, fabric
and rubber, or shearling and suede.

Shoes

Boots/Booties include tall, short,
shearling, lace, and stud boots, followed by weave, and stretch
booties. The scope of styles describes casual, business casual, and
formal – some of the more classic designs comfortably overlap two
of these categories. Cole Haan offer about About a hundred various
shoes in this section.

Sandals/Ballets: gladiator,
criss-cross, thong, and strap sandals; and MJ, lace, bow, and stud
ballets. Two different footwear designs, both flat (ballets can
feature a very low flat heel) appropriate for fancy or flirty
occasion that nonetheless implies an established level of intimacy
and informality.

Loafers/Moccasins men's shoes
comprise slip-ons, woven, tassel, Venetian, and even sport models
(over a hundred variations) suitable, each collection in its own
right, for wear on respective rungs of the intricate modern social
ladder.